AEJ Best Paper Awards
Annually, an article is selected from each òòò½Íø Journal from nominated articles for the AEJ Best Paper Award. Nominations are open. The deadline for nominations is February 15. Winners will be announced in April.
2025
| Natalia Emanuel (L) and Emma Harrington (R) receiving AEJ:Applied Economics Best Paper Awards | ||
| Thomas Dreschel receiving AEJ:Macroeconomics Best Paper Award | ||
| Zach Brown (L) and Alexander MacKay (R) receiving AEJ:Microeconomics Best Paper Awards | ||
Working Remotely? Selection, Treatment, and the Market for Remote Work
Natalia Emanuel and Emma Harrington
òòò½Íø Journal: Applied Economics, Vol. 16, No. 4, October 2024
Adaptation and Adverse Selection in Markets for Natural Disaster Insurance
Katherine R. H. Wagner
òòò½Íø Journal: Economic Policy, Vol. 14, No. 3, August 2022
Earnings-Based Borrowing Constraints and Macroeconomic Fluctuations
Thomas Drechsel
òòò½Íø Journal: Macroeconomics, Vol. 15, No. 2, April 2023
Competition in Pricing Algorithms
Zach Y. Brown and Alexander MacKay
òòò½Íø Journal: Microeconomics, Vol. 15, No. 2, May 2023
2024
| Manasi Deshpande (L) and Yalun Su (R) receiving AEJ:Applied Economics Best Paper Awards (not pictured: Tal Gross) | ||
| Giovanni Ricco receiving AEJ:Macroeconomics Best Paper Award (not pictured: Silvia Miranda-Agrippino) | |
Simon Board (L) and Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn (R) receiving AEJ:Microeconomics Best Paper Awards |
Manasi Deshpande, Tal Gross, and Yalun Su
òòò½Íø Journal: Applied Economics, Volume 13, No. 2, April 2021
Barbara Biasi
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Volume 13, No. 3, August 2021
Silvia Miranda-Agrippino and Giovanni Ricco
òòò½Íø Journal: Macroeconomics, Volume 13, No. 3, July 2021
Simon Board and Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn
òòò½Íø Journal: Microeconomics, Volume 14, No. 2, May 2022
2023
| Enghin Atalay (L) and Daniel Tannenbaum (center) receiving AEJ:Applied Economics Best Paper Awards (not pictured: Phai Phongthiengtham and Sebastian Sotelo) | Oyebola Okunogbe receiving AEJ:Economic Policy Best Paper Award (not pictured: Victor Pouliquen) | |
| Christopher Conlon (center) and Michael Sinkinson (R) receiving AEJ:Microeconomics Best Paper Awards (not pictured: Matthew Backus) | |
Morten Olsen receiving AEJ:Macroeconomics Best Paper Award (not pictured: David Hémous) |
The Evolution of Work in the United States
Enghin Atalay, Phai Phongthiengtham, Sebastian Sotelo, and Daniel Tannenbaum
òòò½Íø Journal: Applied Economics, Volume 12, No. 2, April 2020
Technology, Taxation, and Corruption: Evidence from the Introduction of Electronic Tax Filing
Oyebola Okunogbe and Victor Pouliquen
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Volume 14, No. 1, February 2022
The Rise of the Machines: Automation, Horizontal Innovation, and Income Inequality
David Hémous and Morten Olsen
òòò½Íø Journal: Macroeconomics, Volume 14, No. 1, January 2022
Common Ownership in America: 1980 – 2017
Matthew Backus, Christopher Conlon, and Michael Sinkinson.
òòò½Íø Journal: Microeconomics, Volume 13, No. 3, August 2021
2022
Understanding the Average Impact of Microcredit Expansions: A Bayesian Hierarchical Analysis of Seven Randomized Experiments
Rachael Meager
òòò½Íø Journal: Applied Economics, Volume 11, No. 1, January 2019
Carbon Taxes and CO2 Emissions: Sweden as a Case Study
Julius J. Andersson
òòò½Íø Journal: Economic Policy, Volume 11, No. 4, November 2019
Higher Taxes at the Top: The Role of Entrepreneurs
Bettina Brüggemann
òòò½Íø Journal: Macroeconomics, Volume 13, No. 3, July 2021
Is No News (Perceived As) Bad News? An Experimental Investigation of Information Disclosure
Ginger Zhe Jin
Michael Luca
Daniel Martin
òòò½Íø Journal: Microeconomics, Volume 13, No. 2, May 2021
2021
Ruben Enikolopov
Maria Petrova
Konstantin Sonin
òòò½Íø Journal: Applied Economics, Volume 10, No. 1, January 2018
Martin Watzinger
Thomas A. Fackler
Markus Nagler
Monika Schnitzer
òòò½Íø Journal: Economic Policy, Volume 12, No. 4, November 2020
Marek Jarociński
Peter Karadi
òòò½Íø Journal: Macroeconomics, Volume 12, No. 2, April 2020
Fernando Luco
òòò½Íø Journal: Microeconomics, Volume 11, No. 2, May 2019
2020
Children and Gender Inequality: Evidence from Denmark
Henrik Klevin
Camille Landais
Jakob Egholt Søgaard
AEJ: Applied Economics, 11 (4)
Who is Screened Out? Application Costs and the Targeting of Disability Programs
Manasi Deshpande
Yue Li
AEJ: Economic Policy, 11 (4)
A Model of Secular Stagnation: Theory and Quantitative Evaluation
Gauti Eggertsson
Neil R. Mehrotra
Jacob Robbins
AEJ: Macroeconomics, 11 (1)
Discrimination via Symmetric Auctions
Rahul Deb
Mallesh Pai
AEJ: Microeconomics, 9 (1)
2019
Expertise versus Bias in Evaluation: Evidence from the NIH
Danielle Li
AEJ: Applied Economics, 9 (2)
Adaptation to Climate Change: Evidence from US Agriculture
Marshall Burke and Kyle Emerick
AEJ: Economic Policy, 8 (3)
The Firm Size Distribution across Countries and Skill-Biased Change in Entrepreneurial Technology
Markus Poschke
AEJ: Macroeconomics, 10 (3)
A Pseudo-Market Approach to Allocation with Priorities
Yinghua He, Antonio Miralles, Marek Pycia, and Jianye Yan
AEJ: Microeconomics, 10 (3)
(L to R) Janet Yellen and 2019 recipients Danielle Li, Kyle Emerick (co-author Marshall Burke not present), Markus Poschke, Yinghua He and Jianye Yan (co-authors Antonio Miralles and Marek Pycia not present)
2018
The Persistent Effect of Temporary Affirmative Action
Conrad Miller
AEJ: Applied Economics, 9 (3)
Income, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and Infant Health
Hilary Hoynes, Doug Miller and David Simon
AEJ: Economic Policy, 7 (1)
Gender Gaps and the Rise of the Service Economy
L. Rachel Ngai and Barbara Petrongolo
AEJ: Macroeconomics, 9 (4)
Collective Self-Control
Alessandro Lizzeri and Leeat Yariv
AEJ: Microeconomics, 9 (3)
Barbara Petrongolo (L) and L. Rachel Ngai (center) receiving AEJ:Macro Best Paper Awards |
David Simon and Hilary Hoynes receiving AEJ:Policy Best Paper Awards (not pictured: Doug Miller) |
Conrad Miller receiving AEJ:Applied Best Paper Award |
Alessandro Lizzeri receiving AEJ:Micro Best Paper Award (not pictured: Leeat Yariv) |
2017
- Market-Based Lobbying: Evidence from Advertising Spending in Italy
- Stefano DellaVigna, Ruben Durante, Brian Knight, and Eliana La Ferrara
- AEJ: Applied Economics, 8 (1)
- Of Mice and Academics: Examining the Effect of Openness on Innovation
- Fiona Murray, Philippe Aghion, Mathias Dewatripont, Julian Kolev, and Scott Stern
- AEJ: Economic Policy, 8 (1)
- Understanding the Great Recession
- Lawrence J. Christiano, Martin S. Eichenbaum, and Mathias Trabandt
- AEJ: Macroeconomics, 7 (1)
- Investing in Skill and Searching for Coworkers: Endogenous Participation in a Matching Market
- Chris Bidner, Guillaume Roger and Jessica Moses
- AEJ: Microeconomics, 8 (1)
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Ruben Durante and Stefano DellaVigna, recipients of the 2017 AEJ: Applied Economics Best Paper Award (not pictured: Brian Knight and Eliana La Ferrara)
Philippe Aghion and Julian Kolev, recipients of the 2017 AEJ: Economic Policy Best Paper Award (not pictured: Fiona Murray, Mathias Dewatripont, and Scott Stern)
Martin S. Eichenbaum and Lawrence J. Christiano, recipients of the 2017 AEJ: Macroeconomics Best Paper Award (not pictured: Mathias Trabandt)
2016
- Legal Status and the Criminal Activity of Immigrants
- Giovanni Mastrobuoni, Paolo Pinotti
- AEJ: Applied Economics, 7 (2)
- Death by Market Power: Reform, Competition, and Patient Outcomes in the National Health Service
- Martin Gaynor, Rodrigo Moreno-Serra, and Carol Propper
- AEJ: Economic Policy, 5 (4)
- Monetary Policy Surprises, Credit Costs, and Economic Activity
- Mark Gertler, Peter Karadi
- AEJ: Macroeconomics, 7 (1)
- Nonlinear Pricing of Storable Goods
- Igal Hendel, Alessandro Lizzeri, and Nikita Roketskiy
- AEJ: Microeconomics, 6 (3)
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Martin Gaynor, recipient of the 2016 AEJ: Economic Policy Best Paper Award (not pictured: Rodrigo Moreno-Serra and Carol Propper)
Giovanni Mastrobuoni and Paolo Pinotti, recipients of the 2016 AEJ: Applied Economics Best Paper Award
2015
- Real Wage Inequality
- Enrico Moretti
- AEJ: Applied Economics, 5 (1)
- Measuring the Output Responses to Fiscal Policy
- Alan J. Auerbach and Yuriy Gorodnichenko
- AEJ: Economic Policy, 4 (2)
- Credit Risk and Disaster Risk
- François Gourio
- AEJ: Macroeconomics, 5 (3)
- Observational Learning and Demand for Search Goods
- Kenneth Hendricks, Alan Sorensen and Thomas Wiseman
- AEJ: Microeconomics, 4 (1)
Enrico Moretti, recipient of the 2015 AEJ: Applied Economics Best Paper Award |
François Gourio, recipient of the 2015 AEJ: Macroeconomics Best Paper Award |
Kenneth Hendricks, recipient of the 2015 AEJ: Microeconomics Best Paper Award (Alan Sorensen and Thomas Wiseman, not pictured) |
Alan J. Auerbach and Yuriy Gorodnichenko, recipients of the 2015 AEJ: Economic Policy Best Paper Award |
2014
- Pascaline Dupas
- AEJ: Applied Economics, 3 (1)
- Paul Niehaus and Sandip Sukhtankar
- AEJ: Economic Policy, 5 (4)
- Michael W. L. Elsby and Ryan Michaels
- AEJ: Macroeconomics, 5 (1)
- Susan Athey, Dominic Coey, and Jonathan Levin
- AEJ: Microeconomics, 5 (1)
2013
- Philip Oreopoulos, Till von Wachter, Andrew Heisz
- AEJ: Applied Economics, 4 (1)
- Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Laura Feiveson, Zachary Liscow, William Gui Woolston
- AEJ: Economic Policy, 4 (3)
- Jennifer Hunt and Marjolaine Gauthier-Loiselle
- AEJ: Macroeconomics, 2 (2)
- Michael Ostrovsky and Michael Schwarz
- AEJ: Microeconomics, 2 (2)
2012
- Petia Topalova
- AEJ: Applied Economics, 2 (4)
- Raj Chetty
- AEJ: Economic Policy, 1 (2)
- Michael Woodford
- AEJ: Macroeconomics, 3 (1)
- Glenn Ellison and Sara Fisher Ellison
- AEJ: Microeconomics, 3 (1)
2011
- Hoyt Bleakley
- AEJ: Applied Economics, 2 (2)
- Emmanuel Saez
- AEJ: Economic Policy, 2 (3)
- Valerie Ramey and Neville Francis
- AEJ: Macroeconomics, 1 (2)
- Alex Gershkov and Benny Moldovanu
- AEJ: Microeconomics, 1 (2)